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reformation had its rise from that circumstance. 28th. This day we dined with Robert Monroe, factor of the United States in the Indian Depart-ment. At his table we met our friend Charles Jewett, the revenue officer before named, Judge Henry and Lawyer Sibley. 29th. This day we dined with Frederick Bates, at his lodgings. He is descended from Friends, and discovers great partiality for our company. He is a young man of superior under-standing, and is much esteemed in Detroit. I feel and fear for the situation of this young man. It is not in human nature to support good principles unblemished, when left alone to stem the torrent of fashionable and fascinating vices.Detroit is a place of great corruption. 30th. This day we rode nine miles up theriver Detroit to take a view of Lake St. Clair. This lake is thirty miles in length, and twenty miles in width. We had a beautiful prospect of it, from a commanding situation. I ought to have mentioned that bordering the river, the whole distance from Detroit to the lake, the land is handsomely improved. The houses are so near each other that the margin of the river looks like a village. These farms are grants made by the French government nearly a cen-tury ago. They uniformly lie in parallelograms containing about one hundred acres. Added to tolerable dwelling houses are the handsomestapple orchards I ever saw. The extraordinary